Mayors may also function as the head of the city council, sometimes elected as Mayor by the council rather the citizens, while day-to-day operations of the city are delegated to a professional city manager.

In Canada mayors are usually elected at large by the citizens of a municipality for a fixed term.

The Conference of Mayors has reported that the number of persons using food banks or soup kitchens in major cities has increased substantially in each of the past 16 years, and it is expected that a similar increase will be reported this year.

If the mayors' growth figures were accurate and representative of the nation, the number of persons receiving emergency food aid would have grown from 21.4 million in 1997 (as reported by Second Harvest) to around 40 million in 2001.

Since the mayors' report provides only the sketchiest account of how its numbers are collected, it is impossible to determine to what extent this problem may contribute to the mayors' very rapid growth figures.

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School Planning & Management - MAYORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)

Urban mayors are very concerned about education in their cities, the quality of the public schools and the impact of education on the economic vitality and viability of their cities.

Mayors are doing this because they view education as an asset and resource for their cities, as are its buildings.

Cleveland, under the leadership of Mayor Jane Campbell in coordination with School CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett, is implementing a variety of strategies to revitalize the city’s school system.

Ohio Citizen Action joins with the United Auto Workers and Councilman Dennis Kucinich to campaign against tax abatements for downtown developers and the sale of Muny Light.

The administrations of ClevelandMayorsGeorge Voinovich and Mike White pass measures to expand Muny Light citywide, even though both men strongly backed CEI in its 1978-79 bid to acquire Muny Light and end local competition for electricity.

Ohio Citizen Action returns to Toledo City Council with signatures from 17,000 Toledo residents calling for the completion of the public power study.

Though the election for Ohio's next governor is two years away, candidates already are throwing their hats in the ring and gearing up for what is sure to be a fierce battle.

Blackwell is a former mayor of Cincinnati, treasurer of the state, undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

OhioDemocratic Party spokesman Dan Trevas said the party also would not throw support behind any one candidate in the primary and would formalize plans for 2006.

While Ohio was the home of ultra liberal Sen. Howard Metzenbaum until he retired in 1995, four statewide initiatives in 2005 called "Reform Ohio" by its supporters aimed to neuter Republicans'; control of the state by creating unelected bi-partisan committees, yet each were defeated by about 74 percent of the vote.

Ohio is now predominately a Republican state with the Cleveland area being an oasis for the Democrats.

Ohio's lieutenant governor slot is usually occupied by a virtual politically unknown, and Strickland tapped the politically washed-up and failed Ohio gubernatorial candidate Lee Fisher, who has been out of office for years.

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Lists of mayors by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)

This is a list of mayors organised by country.

List of Mayors of the Municipality of Strathfield

List of mayors of Washington, D.C. List of mayors of Williamsport, Pennsylvania

The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry was one of the first to respond to the President's call for seventy-five thousand men for three months' service, and, on the 4th of May, 1861, the regiment was organized at Camp Jackson, Columbus, to Ohio, and four days after moved to Camp Goddard, near Zanesville, Ohio.

In March, 1862, the Thirty-seventh Ohio was added to the third provisional brigade of the Kanawha division, and ordered to accompany that division on a raid to the southern part of West Virginia, with the view of reaching and destroying, if possible, the Virginia and East Tennessee railroad, near Wytheville, Virginia.

Yours, truly, O. Company M, Ninth Ohio V. The artillery record of Coshocton county is included in the record of the Twenty-sixth Ohio Independent Battery and in an effort that was made (in combination with a petition from the veterans) on the part of the military committee of the county.

City Mayorslists and features urban events, conferences and conventions aimed at urban decision makers and those with an interst in cities worldwide.

City Mayors questions those who govern the world’s cities and talks to men and women who contribute to urban society and environment.

In the 24 cities surveyed in the US Conference of Mayors Hunger and Homelessness Survey for 2005, an average of 14 per cent of overall emergency shelter requests went unmet, with 32 per cent of shelter requests by homeless families unmet.

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Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Columbus, Ohio(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)

Unlike Cleveland and Cincinnati, the central cities in Ohio's two largest metropolitan areas, Columbus is ringed by relatively few suburbs; since the 1950s it has made annexation a condition for providing water and sewer service, to which it holds regional rights throughout a large portion of Central Ohio.

The Ohio Statehouse, built of Columbus limestone from the Marble Cliff Quarry Co., began construction in 1839 on a 10 acre (40,000 mÂ²) plot of land donated by four prominent Columbus landowners to form Capitol Square, not part of the original layout of the city.

The government is administered by a mayor and a unicameral council elected every two years, the mayor appointing the director of safety and the director of public service.

Cleveland City Council's Public Utilities Committee (chaired by Ward 17's Matt Zone) should soon be getting Time Warner's formal application for City approval of the takeover and renewal of the local franchise, which expires in September.

The improvements needed to Ohio’s current concealed carry law outlined in HB 347 have bipartisan support from both Democratic and Republican legislators in the Ohio House of Representatives.

Josh Marshall lists both Dewine and Voinovich as "fingers in the wind" on the net neutrality issue (by which Josh means the Snowe/Dorgan "Internet Freedom Preservation Act").

A fascinating five-way Democratic primary for the 10th District Ohio House seat, and a grassroots effort against the Port Authority levy.

In fact we were introduced when David's wife Louise did a Google search on something like "archwood cleveland" looking for someone who might know more about a house they had their eyes on.

They forget that the port is part of Cleveland; it's yet another instance of our neighbors' whiny refrain "what's mine is mine, what's yours is ours." They don't like their representation, tough, they can build a port in Euclid or Bay Village.

Table of contents for Lake effects(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)

Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century.

Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.

Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

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Black Mayors In America(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)

The first of its kind, Black Mayors In America™ is a historical overview of current African-American mayors who govern throughout the United States.

Definitely a keepsake, the publication features rich historical content about mayoral trailblazers such as former mayors Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Coleman Young of Detroit, Harold Washington of Chicago, and David Dinkins of New York, to name a few.

Commissioned by Columbus, Ohio’s first African-American mayor, the Honorable Michael B. Coleman, this inaugural edition of Black Mayors In America is a wonderful resource for students of all ages, researchers, and libraries across the United States.

Clinton began, "because I believe that parents do deserve greater choice within the public school system to meet the needs of their children." She described how positively impressed she was by the high standards she saw at a Washington, DC charter school that required children to master Latin.

She told the audience that despite the rigorous requirements, the school had a large waiting list.

The mayors of Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Oakland were accused of power grabs.

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Table of Contents: Early History of Cleveland, Ohio, by Charles Whittlesey(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)